Janine Piguet

Janine Piguet is an actress and director from Bern. She grew up in a family of musicians in Arzo on the Italian border, then in Paris and London. She is best known as an actress for her lead role as Bibi in Jean-François Amiguet’s feature film, for which she received several awards in 2022 and 23. She has appeared in a number of feature films before that, including Magga Ettori’s Faeryland, in which she starred alongside Yves Duteil, Plonk et Replonk’s last film in 2021, and shorter appearances in Léa Fazer’s Sasha, J.L. Chautems’ Chroma and Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent. She is also currently appearing in the series I-art (Cannes séries 2021), and in Thierry Pradervand’s film Lost in my heart, in which she plays a melancholic jazz singer.

She trained at Les Enfants Terribles in Paris, then at the European Act program from the RADA and the Actors’ Center in London and lately at the Tankstelle in Berlin. She is particularly fond of Meisner and emotional techniques. Quadrilingual, she performs in theatre and films in German, Swiss-German, French, Italian and English. She regularly sings in films, plays and musicals (DESIREE, September 2023).